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The Last Days of Dogtown
de Anita Diamant
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1405049677
- ISBN 13
- 9781405049672
- Librería
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Macmillan, Australia, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Hardcover. 263 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan, Australia, 2006. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN is a novel set on Cape Ann, Massachusetts in the early 1800s. But this is not so much a historical novel as a novel of the past, of poor people, widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and 'witches': the kind of people who are generally forgotten by history. Based loosely on published accounts of an abandoned rural backwater near the Massachusetts coastline, THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN reimagines and reinvents the stories of a small group of eccentrics and misfits - reputedly the last residents of the ghost town. THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN features a cast of unforgettable characters including Black Ruth, an African woman who dresses as a man and works as a stone mason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam, whose grandson, Sammy, comes of age amid the sights and sounds of a wretched rural brothel; Oliver Younger, who overcomes the most miserable childhood and becomes a loving father. At the center of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, generous and wise but also heart-broken and lonely, who nevertheless builds a life for herself and a community of friends, in the most unlikely of settings. As in her first novel, The Red Tent, author Anita Diamant takes a chapter of our shared past and brings it to vivid life, in this case, changing forever the way we think about (among other things) what it was like to have a toothache in 1815 and the experience of African slaves in New England. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 1405049677. ISBN/EAN: 9781405049672. Inventory No: 16080547.. 9781405049672
Sinopsis
The new novel from Anita Diamant, author of the international bestseller, The Red Tent, follows the lives and loves of an eccentric 19th century farming community in Massachusetts, and demonstrates both her amazing range as a novelist and her capacity to understand and honour people's lives.An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society's outcast living in an unforgiving and barren but harshly beautiful landscape. New York Times Book ReviewIn the early nineteenth century there was once a place called Dogtown. Located on a rocky outcrop at the northernmost boundary of Massachusetts Bay, it was a miserable place really, less a village than a motley collection of people who had nowhere else to go. Yet the end of a village, even one as poor and small as Dogtown, is not an altogether trivial thing.With a sure and delicate touch, Anita Diamant shares compelling secrets and sadnesses, interweaving the lives of the mysterious black African woman Ruth, who dresses as a man; the child Sammy, who arrived in Dogtown with a note attached to his coat; the touching and tender love story of Judy Rhines and Cornelius; and presiding over all, the benign and diminutive Easter Carter, host of what passes as the local tavern.The Last Days of Dogtown vividly brings to life an unforgettable community of eccentrics and misfits - the forgotten people of the New World who live on the fringes of polite society. With great depth of feeling, Diamant shows us the essential humanity of these quiet, small lives, lived in that harsh, windswept landscape and under that bright sky. There will be much celebration when Anita Diamant's fans discover this gem on the shelves of their favourite bookstore. Armidale Express
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- Librería
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 16080547
- Título
- The Last Days of Dogtown
- Autor
- Anita Diamant
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1405049677
- ISBN 13
- 9781405049672
- Editorial
- Macmillan
- Lugar de publicación
- Australia
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Palabras clave
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Last Days of Dogtown
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Historical; Fiction;
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